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bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification
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Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:04:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> We could work around the problem by setting watches on files directly
> with inotify, but it's not worth the trouble or the other drawbacks
> (as mentioned earlier) for such an uncommon case.
If you go back in history (for years), you will find in the archives
that we have tried different policies. None of them is perfect, so
unless we see serious problems, I propose to keep the things as they are.
>> As Tramp maintainer, I always set `auto-revert-remote-files' to t :-)
>> So I care.
>
> Right, so I suppose a user like you would either:
>
> (a) not set `auto-revert-always-poll' to nil
> (b) trust remote file notification to work well enough, and if it
> fails, it's not a disaster (no data lost)
> (c) add a pattern to `auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp' to
> disable particularly unreliable notifications
>
> which sounds acceptable.
Don't know what other people do, but I'll take (a). Since I have written
remote file notifications myself, likely I'm the one who has the least
trust for (b) :-) (c) could help, yes.
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, (continued)
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/29
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/04/29
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Michael Albinus, 2019/04/29
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/04/30
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Michael Albinus, 2019/04/29
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/04/29
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Michael Albinus, 2019/04/29
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/04/29
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/30
bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Michael Albinus, 2019/04/24
bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification, Zhang Haijun, 2019/04/29